Arctic Chill is a 2008 translation of a 2005 crime novel by Icelandic author Arnaldur Indriðason

Arnaldur Indriðason

Arnaldur Indriðason is an Icelandic writer of crime fiction. He has repeatedly proved to be the most popular writer in Iceland in recent years — topping bestseller lists year after year...

, another entry in the multi award-winning Detective Erlendur series.

The book is the first of Indriðason's works to be translated into English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 by someone other than Bernard Scudder

Bernard Scudder

Bernard John Scudder was an award-winning British translator from Icelandic into English. He died in 2007. His translations include the work of best-selling crime writer Arnaldur Indriðason and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir. Scudder's translation of Indriðason's novel Silence of the Grave won the 2005...

, as he died of a heart attack before his translation was complete. Victoria Cribb completed it.